I just came across this article – Area Steel Mills Gird for even more Layoffs from the Post Tribune.  According to the article, AccelorMittal is contemplating shutdowns at its East Chicago plant and US Steels Gary Works was idled this past weekend.  Apparently the Gary Works location had a blow through on its blast furnace which will impact approximately 320 workers.  AccelorMittal is contemplating shutting down one of its furnaces for maintenance work and is also dealing with a decline in demand.  Both companies are working with the unions to minimize the impact of the shut downs.  If you have a reliability engineering job or a predictive maintenance job at either of these facilities and are concerned about the long-term prognosis for employment at these plants, now is a great time to check out NextUp Careers – the first site dedicated to providing job opportunities for reliability engineering and predictive maintenance professionals.  Once we launch on May 1st, we will have hundreds of jobs for reliabilty engineers, maintenance engineers, vibration analysts, oil analysts, infrared thermographers and every other category of maintenance jobs.  To get a jump start on the process, upload your resume here.